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The secret of joy is hidden in the word itself: first J, then O, then Y: Jesus first, Others next, Yourself last.

Peter Kreeft

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Peter Kreeft
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: March 16
Philosopher
Professor
Theologian
Writer
Paterson
New Jersey
Peter John Kreeft
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We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.
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Humility is the marriage bond of Heaven. Pride is the frigidity of Hell.
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Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts.
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If you truly love God and His will, then doing what you will, will, in fact, be doing what God wills.
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Sacraments are like hoses. They are the channels of the living water of God's grace. Our faith is like opening the faucet. We can open it a lot, a little, or not at all.
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There are relatively few atheists among neurologists and brain surgeons and astrophysicists, but many among psychologists, sociologists, and historians. The reason seems obvious: the first study divine design, the second study human undesign.
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If you want to get wet, go out to where it is raining If you want to be a saint, find one and hang out with him.
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Thus moral theology leads us four steps deeper than law. To fulfill the moral law, we need love. To get love, we need union with God. To get union with God, we need the new birth. And to get the new birth, we need faith.
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Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, I am. We are ontological oxymorons.
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Abortion is the insurance against that fate worse than death which is called a family.
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No culture in history has ever embraced moral relativism and survived. Our own culture, therefore, will either (1) be the first, and disprove history's clearest lesson, or (2) persist in its relativism and die, or (3) repent of its relativism and live. There is no other option.
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The six things in life that never get boring are knowing and loving God, your neighbor, and yourself.
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